Yale-Led Team Solves Half-Century Carbon-Crystal Mystery 42
slew writes "Unlike its more famous carbon cousins: diamonds and fullerenes, you've probably never heard of M-Carbon, but this form of compressed graphite which is as hard as diamonds has baffled researcher for half a century. Over the past few years, many theoretical computations have suggested at least a dozen different crystal structures for this phase of carbon, but new experiments showed that only one crystal structure fits the data: M-carbon."
Which researcher? (Score:5, Funny)
Though he has been baffled, his name has not been released.
Re:Which researcher? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:What a badly written piece (Score:2, Funny)
Only one logical fallacy fits the headline: tautology.
What is tautology? For years Scientists have been baffled by this logical fallacy. Recent research has indicated it can be only one thing: tautology.